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Typewriter of the moment: Pete Seeger

February 15, 2014 12:28 am

Photo found at the blog of the good Robert Messenger at OzTypewriter:

I can find no identifying information on the photo.  It looks, to me, to have been taken in the 1950s, judging by Pete’s hair and no beard.

Pete Seeger at a typewriter, probably in the 1950s.

It’s an electric typewriter, I think, seeing a cord coming out of the back.  Probably a Royal (I’m not great at identifying typewriters, you know).   Was this taken at Pete’s home in Beacon?  Perhaps.

Can you help in identifying the time and place of this photo?

More:

• Pete Seeger articles and mentions here at Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub
• “Postcards from Old Pete,” at Melville House Books
• “Pete Seeger and the Lion King,” at OzTypewriter – heckuva story about the original author of “Mbube,” which became “Wimoweh, which became “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” and attempts to recover some of the royalties due the family of the composer, Solomon Linda
• Yes! magazine photo essay of Pete at home, from 2007 (some very nice, very interesting photos; no typewriters that I’ve found)

Posted by Ed Darrell

Categories: Folk Music, History, Music, Pete Seeger, Technology, Typewriters

Tags: Folk Music, History, Pete Seeger, Technology, Typewriters

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5 Responses to “Typewriter of the moment: Pete Seeger”

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   By For Typewriter Day, June 23, the typewriter archives at Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub | Millard Fillmore's Bathtub on June 23, 2016 at 4:08 pm

2. Tineye maybe found one photo for me; even plain google with keywords is better. here’s the date: july 28th. The new Google image search is pretty good.
   http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/pete-seeger-sitting-at-the-typewriter-during-the-newport-news-photo/109481264

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   By jahigginbotham on February 18, 2014 at 12:55 am

3. Thanks!

   I’ve been using Tineye, and it did not find the photo at all.

   Where OzTypewriter says “Newport,” I still haven’t found.

   Which means, once again, I owe readers for finding stuff I haven’t.

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   By Ed Darrell on February 16, 2014 at 7:06 pm

4. Well, the OzTypewriter link says:
   Pete Seeger at a typewriter, Newport Folk Festival, 1963.

   And if you right-click on the image above and left-click on “Search Google for this Image” the first hit is:
   http://www.rowlandscherman.com/
   Under “Music Portfolios” and “Newport ’63” is item 9 (info about keg party).
   The calendar page is the correct layout for july 1963.

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   By jahigginbotham on February 16, 2014 at 1:32 am

5. How times change.

   Showed my daughter a typewriter and her response was

   “What the heck is that? What do you mean you can’t delete??”

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   By Black Flag® on February 15, 2014 at 2:15 pm

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